The Boccaccio's Massacre: Part One

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True Crime, Murder, Unsolved Case, Killing, Murderer, Cold Case

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On a winter's morning in 1975, four employees vanished from a Florida nightclub. A few days later, a group of brothers stumbled upon their bodies, dumped several miles away in the Everglades.

Police still don't know who murdered Joseph McCartney, Gail Reickmann, Mary Ann Hastons, and Neata Harvard all those years ago. In this episode, we'll delve into this heinous crime, involving a disgruntled ex-employee, cocaine rumors, and the strange details of the mass murder. We'll also hear from the original detective on the case, as well as the current investigator currently looking into the cold case.

Sources for this episode include the Fort Lauderdale News, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Orlando Sentinel.

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0:28.5	Content warning, this episode contains disturbing details related to an unsolved murder.
0:36.9	As always, for a full list of our sources for this episode, check out our show notes.
0:42.8	Sunday, December 7, 1975, was warm in Fort Lauderdale.
0:49.1	The temperatures hovered in the mid-70s.
0:52.5	The mid-kiff brothers, Richard, John, and Anthony decided to spend the morning hunting deer,
0:58.8	cruising through grassy Florida fields in their swamp buggy.
1:02.8	The spot they picked to hunt has since been developed and is full of hotels and condos.
1:09.0	But in the 70s, it was in the Everglades, and was much more isolated.
1:15.2	True, there was a Florida power and light repair station several hundred yards away,
1:20.4	but it was mainly used to keep trucks.
1:23.2	The nearest residents lived more than a mile away at an apartment complex back then.
1:29.3	A canal ran through the field. Some people used it to dump their garbage.
1:34.5	Others, like the mid-kiffs, just liked it as background scenery when they rode their buggy
1:40.1	through the brush and shrubs. It was a fun, relaxing morning, until John smelled something.
1:46.8	He couldn't tell what it was. None of the brothers could.
1:51.1	But it reminded them of death. They thought they knew what it might be.
1:56.8	It was illegal to shoot female deer, so when hunters killed a doe,
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